My aunt is in visiting from Texas and is staying with my mom over in PA.

At the family reunion yesterday she asked about cards

and I told her I would make her up a variety before

she heads back home next week.

I think this card will be No. 1 of a dozen or so for her.

Everyone likes butterflies so I thought these would make

the perfect focus embellishment.

The design paper I have used is from the Prima 'Princess' 6x6 pack and even though this sheet is gorgeous (in my mind at least), it is a bit busy and can be difficult to use. I this this particular sketch design worked perfectly to showcase this pretty paper. As you see, a strip of images I needed to cut from the front panel was repurposed onto the inside sentiment panel. Love when that sort of thing works out so beautifully!

The beautiful Stamping Boutique image I chose to create with today is called 'Daisy Rope'. I used my Spectrum Noir alcohol marker PL2 to color my image/accents then tied in the other pieces and parts. All items used will be listed at the end of this post.

Please pop over and check out the amazing designs from my team mates !These ladies sure are keeping me on my toes!! LOL!

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Come the end of September, Karan will be closing the Cardabilities & Sketchabilties blogs due to personal time restraints.

Friday, August 28, 2015

Welcome Friends!I don't know what I would do without my FRIENDS!Someone to confide in when life's troubles have you down, a shoulder to cry on when you are at your breaking point and someone to laugh with when life treats you well. We ALL need our FRIENDS!

Today I'm sharing another quick & easy card creation using dies from the Dies R Us Store!The inside was left blank so I could write a personal note to the friend I'm sending this too and as you may have noticed ... I tend to 'talk a lot' so needall the white space available for what I have to say! LOL!

I recently received my DRU order and must confess I was surprised to find this Poppystamps 'Super Squares'
die was not exactly what I was expecting! My bad ... didn't look at
the size dimensions offered on our website ... just 'assumed' they were
larger.

But
what a wonderful surprise when I simply laid them out onto a piece of
designer paper and achieved this AWESOME background. Now I can think
of SO MANY other ways to use this ONE DIE SET!!

By adding a sentiment die cut, my card was complete! VIOLA!!

The sentiment die I used is Penny Black 'Friends Frame' 51-041 and
sorry to say not available in the store at the time of this posting.
BUT, there are TONS of sentiment word dies available from a wide range
of companies ... simply go to our STORE and in the SEARCH box type the word you are looking for! This card literally came together in about 10 minutes!

I hope you'll come join in the fun and share your 'SCHOOL TIME' creations with us. In need of inspiration? Please pop over to our challenge blog to see what my 'sistahs' have created ... some really cool ideas from these ladies!!

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Today I have a card to share that I've created for the Dies R Us Inspiration Blog and will be used for the upcoming holiday season. With all the fabulous dies available at our Dies R Us Store, (over 40 companies) you can create a fun card in no time at all (and use up some of those scraps while you are at it!).

I
have used a combination of 'older' and 'newer' dies for today's card.
There are so many wonderful holiday dies available in the store to
create these fun 'scene' cards and the fact that they come together so
quickly, you can have all your Christmas cards done in time to put your
feet up and enjoy a cup of hot chocolate (or lemonade if you get started
right away!) LOL

I hope you'll come join in our bi monthly challenges at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog. A new theme begins on the 1st and 15th of each month and one lucky winner receives a gift voucher to the Dies R Us Store ... that could be YOU!!

Have a fabulous day and thanks so much for stopping by!
As always . . .

Thursday, August 20, 2015

My goodness but it's been a bit crazy around here the past few months and my mojo is 'lacking' to say the least! BUT ... I did find time (and enough mojo) to create a winter scene card that will go in my holiday card collection. Whether for sale or for my own use, I enjoyed creating it and am very happy with the outcome.

It's so quick and easy to create a winter scene with all the amazing new die cuts available. One of my all time favorite die cut companies is Memory Box. Their dies always seem to be more along 'my style' and I love all the outdoor images they have available.

My 'original' card only had one bird in the trees but after photographing it

I didn't like how it looked so went back through my

dies and located my Memory Box 'Contempo Birds' die which

has a variety of different size birds and

added a few friends for my lonely single bird ... BETTER!!

Since my original bird was glued down I simply popped a bird facing the

other direction up in front of him and added a few

friends on other branches ... I'm much happier with this version.

What do you think?

I love how you can create a snowy ground cover by simply tearing an 'off cut' from your white card base card stock.

Quick ... Easy ... Perfect!

OH! And did you notice I CUT my Memory Box 'Deer in the Trees' frame?

I didn't like the positioning of the frame on my A6 card background so simply gave it a quik cut in order to have the trees LOWER on my scene. You probably wouldn't have even noticed that if I hadn't pointed it out!

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

and created a card that anyone you consider a friend would appreciate receiving!

I love how quickly this card came together.

The
first thing I did was create my 'shades of blue' background by using
large sponge daubers and 4 different shades of Tim Holtz distress ink.
Then came the MAGIC by overlaying a white die cut panel using the Poppystamps 'Luxe Background' die.

I
used a panel of blue cardstock (65# weight) 1/8" smaller than my card
base as my mat. Adhered my colorful background panel then taking
another strip of blue card stock, I tore the upper edge and adhered
across the bottom.

My
sentiment panel is an image from the Crafty Secrets 'Little Blessings'
Creative Scraps and the only embellishments I felt were necessary are
the birds which have been popped up with SU dimensional for added dimension.

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